10% uplift on discrimination compensation

The Tribunal had awarded a 25% uplift for failure to follow the ACAS Code on grievances but the EAT found that this was inappropriate because the Code specifically referred to the grievance being lodged in writing and it was not open to the Tribunal to make such an uplift in circumstances where the employee had not complied with the requirements of the Code.

Furthermore, the EAT did not consider that an award of £10,000 for the discrimination suffered was appropriate as it did not consider the harassment to fall into the middle band of Vento. The EAT considered that the conduct fell into the lower band and substituted an award of £6,000 along with a 10% uplift.

Interestingly in this case the judge changed her findings from the oral deliverance of the judgment to the written version….

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